Graining-machine



(No Model.)

H. K. HESS.

GRAINING MACHINE.

No. 364,515. Patented June 7, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY K. HESS, OF BELLAIRE, OHIO.

GRAINING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,515, dated June 7, 1887.

Application filed June 1, 1886. Serial No. 203.877. (No model.)

. terial to an endless or continuous design. I

attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is the side elevation. Fig. 2 is an end elevation; and Fig. 3 is a plan of a machine embodying my invention.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

1 1 are two side frames, of any suitable ma terial, having handles attached to them, and also projections or slides 2 2,within which slide frames carrying the roller 3. Between the two side frames, 1 l, a large roller or cylinder, 4, is carried, having a flange or collar at each end, the side roller revolving freely on ashaft held in the side frames, 1 1.

Over the rollers 3 and 4 is stretched an end less or continuous flexible design, web, or belt, 5, preferably of india-rubber or gum, with the design in exact facsimile of the grain of the wood it is desired to imitate, or the pattern it is desired to transfer to any surface, either raised or sunk below the surface of said endless design, web, or belt. Bearing on the said design 5, and held down to it by springs contained in the projections 6 6, is a hollow cylinder, 7, made of perforated metal and enveloped with a porous cloth of any suitable material, as shown in Fig. 2, where part of the cloth is shown broken away and exposing the perforated cylinder. Provision is made for filling this cylinder 7 with graining material from one end of said cylinder 7.

The mode of operation is as follows: The machine is passed over the surface to be grained, with the small roller 3 pressing the endless flexible web, belt, or design. 5 firmly on the surface to be grained, the flexible endless web, belt, or design 5 rotating and con tinuing to take the graining material from the porous cylinder 7, so long as the machine is passed over the surface to be'grained and there is graining material in the cylinder.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The combination, in a graining-machine, of the endless continuous web, belt, or design 5, with the design formed upon the surface, and the perforated cylinder 7, covered with a porous envelope to supply graining material to said endless continuous web, belt, or design, all substantially as set forth.

HENRY K. I-IEss. Witnesses:

A. L. BARON, \V. T. RUFER. 

